Andrew Rosenthal:
Of all of the lobbying organizations that feed off fear, and rely for their funding and power on dividing Americans, one of the worst is the National Rifle Association.
The NRA never misses a chance to misrepresent the positions of people who advocate reasonable gun control, to make Americans afraid that the government wants to take away their right to defend their homes and their loved ones, and to turn any attempt to have a sensible conversation about guns into an assault on the Second Amendment.
Why else would the NRA support a law that makes it more difficult to prevent suicides among members of the armed forces?
Let me explain. …
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I have a solution that ought to please everybody:
All guns should be required to be fitted with an “undo” button.
Unfortunately, the NRA could not have wished for an editorial better suited to its purposes. I’m not part of the right. I don’t like the NRA. I favor quite a few gun laws. I should be precisely the kind of gun owner that Rosenthal would like to address. So, I’m inclined to be on his side when he writes that the NRA has done something nutty. But then he writes this:
Well, no, it’s not a small point. It has been the major legal contention over the 2nd amendment for decades, and was the major issue the recent Supreme Court decisions. If it were a small point, the New York Times would not have bought barrels of ink to cover the Heller and McDonald cases. Pretending that is a small point is worse than disingenuous. It’s almost as if some NRA propagandist were guiding Rosenthal’s pen, so that they could show it to their side, saying, “see, the New York Times thinks we’re stupid.”
Sounds reasonable. But then:
That, of course, is precisely what gun owners oppose, where they think registration inevitably leads, what the NRA uses to whip up its ranks, and what the Supreme Court says cities and states may not do. And Rosenthal should know that.
Anyone who wants to have a discussion about a moderate stance on gun restrictions needs to begin with what the Supreme Court says the 2nd amendment protects: The right to own a gun. Including a handgun. Wherever you live. Any movement that has as its goal rolling back Heller and McDonald gives the NRA all the fodder it needs. Those who push that are keeping guns one of the best wedge issues the radical right has.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v?=43ijoiQxy6Q
“Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security”
Bemjamin Franklin
First of all this guy is a moron who doesn’t check his information, Like A post in Kansas trying to implement the gun check at the gate, ALL, I REPEAT, ALL military installations you have to check your firearm at the gate get it registered and many places get it put in a central vault if it is privately owned. And before you anti gun people go nuts over this saying see we should do that in public, there is no need really to keep arms for protection on a military reservation because people who don’t need to be there can’t get in.
Second of all the military suicides with privately owned weapons would still happen if they didn’t have them if someone wants to commit suicide (especially soldiers) they will with what ever means they have. The reason I say especially soldiers we have a habit of making a decision and following through.
The army has addressed this issue and is trying to prevent further suicides by resilience training, more forward suicide training, and a check your buddy system.
To blame the NRA or anyone else for these suicides is asinine, how can the NRA put a gun in someones hand? Less restrictions? Well Military people will always qualify because we are law-abiding citizens for the most part or we get the boot.
I would want to say more but i am rambling now and don’t want to bore you.